Sarah Kane - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

This author committed suicide after writing a play devoid of characters or stage directions which is thought to represent the experience of living with depression. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author of 4.48 Psychosis. A play by this author set in a hotel room ends after a woman gives food and gin to a man who had just eaten a baby.

ANSWER: Sarah Kane (The second play is Blasted.)

[10m] This author commended Sarah Kane’s play Blasted and called it “rather a tender play.” This author of Cloud 9 included several fictional and historical women in the play Top Girls.

ANSWER: Caryl Churchill [or Caryl Lesley Churchill]

[10e] At Sarah Kane’s funeral, this close friend of Kane only said, “she was a poet.” This author became popular with The Caretaker, a play written after the commercial failures The Birthday Party and The Dumbwaiter.

ANSWER: Harold Pinter

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	9	6.67	56%	11%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%

Data


Binghamton	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	RIT B	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	RIT A	0	0	10	10
Maryland B (UG)	GWU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
UNC D (DII)	GWU B (Grad)	0	0	0	0
Liberty A (Grad)	UNC C (UG)	0	0	10	10
Virginia B (UG)	Liberty B (DII)	0	0	10	10
Liberty C (DII)	JMU A (UG)	0	0	0	0
Virginia A (UG)	Maryland A (Grad)	0	0	10	10
UNC B (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	10	20
Virginia C (UG)	Duke A (UG)	0	0	0	0
William & Mary A (UG)	Maryland C (DII)	0	0	0	0
Arizona State	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Michigan State A	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Iowa A	0	10	10	20
UW A	Sorbonne	0	0	10	10
Texas A&M A	Appalachian State	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Texas A&M B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	10	10	20
Cedarville	Ohio State B	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	NYU A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Penn	10	10	10	30
Vassar	NYU B	0	0	10	10
John Jay	Rowan	10	0	10	20
Bristol	Durham B	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Edinburgh	0	0	0	0
Warwick	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
KCL	Kiel	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Oxford B	10	10	10	30
Oxford C	Sheffield	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	Geodesic	0	10	10	20
Harding	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	Tennessee	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Alabama	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10